Tom Cruise tells Oprah he's happily married

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tom Cruise returned to the Oprah
Winfrey show on Friday and talked about his love for Katie
Holmes, but this time he was denying marital problems instead
of jumping on the couch to prove his passion for the young
actress.

"That's laughable to me," Cruise said when Winfrey told him
there was speculation that "what you and Katie have is not
real."

It was the first time Cruise appeared on the show since his
couch-hopping stunt three years ago drew a flood of satire and
ridicule.

"It was something that I just felt that way, and I feel
that way about her. That's just how I felt," he said in the
interview aired on Friday.

The Hollywood star said he could not articulate "the
feeling, the connection," with Holmes and noted their daughter
Suri, now 3, was born a year to the day after he met Holmes.

Cruise also was showered with opprobrium after other
comments criticizing actress Brooke Shields for taking
anti-depressant drugs and for over-medication of children
generally. "You've just got to take it in stride," he said.

Winfrey interviewed Cruise at his mountaintop home near
Telluride, Colorado, surrounded by the snow-capped Rocky
Mountains. The show marked the 25th anniversary of "Risky
Business," his breakthrough movie.

Holmes, 29, and Cruise, 45, both greeted Winfrey when she
arrived at the sprawling log home, where they gave her
moccasins with her name stitched on them waiting in a mud room
cubicle marked "Oprah" with a brass plate. Holmes said she
loved them both and left them to their interview.
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